[ python-Bugs-1354265 ] Interactive help fails with Windows Installer

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Bugs item #1354265, was opened at 2005-11-11 13:21
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Category: Build
Group: Python 2.4
Status: Closed
Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Colin J. Williams (cjwhrh)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Interactive help fails with Windows Installer

Initial Comment:
help> SPECIALMETHODS

Sorry, topic and keyword documentation is not available
because the Python
HTML documentation files could not be found.  If you
have installed them,
please set the environment variable PYTHONDOCS to
indicate their location.

help>
The problem appears to be that the MS Help .chm is used
and no HTML docs are provided.

Colin W.

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>Comment By: Colin J. Williams (cjwhrh)
Date: 2005-11-13 09:01

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Many thanks, the hh -decompile method is simple.  Maybe a
note could be added to the Windows installer, or perhaps the
installer could do it.

Incidentally, for my machine, the command was:
hh -decompile c:\python24\doc\html c:\python24\Doc\python24.chm

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2005-11-13 05:20

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That is deliberate; you have to download the HTML
documentation manually, from 

http://docs.python.org/download.html

Alternatively, just invoke

hh -decompile c:\python24\doc\html c:\python24\python24.chm



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